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🇫🇷 1st French team jersey ... as a gift 🇫🇷 It was one of the reasons that motivated me from the start to launch Enduraw to help my country win titles 🥇 C'est peut être un détail pour vous, but to me it means a lot 🇫🇷 Two years ago, the French were a little behind in the world of data and sport, which led us to have almost exclusively foreign athletes. But the home games gave us a tremendous boost (GrAIg, Adrien Sedeaud, Hugo Maciejewski, Aurélie JEAN, Ph.D., MAUNA, François Chiron, Consistency team, ...) and that's great for our country. 🚀 Now full focus on the Olympic Games for the marathon! With such an hilly course that's some interesting parallel with trail running 🔜 My next dreams: to help an athlete win an Olympic title (pls for fr) and to be offered a Red Bull helmet by helping an athlete (because it's so stylish 🤪). #performance #sport #europeanchampionship #olympics #running #data

Everytime there is a Paralympic year it is a reminder of how the Paralympics not only changed my life, but made my life. But it is worth noting I almost didn’t make it to the games because of a mistake and crippling self doubt… when I was about 13 I competed in my first big competition, the NSW State Championships. My first race at these championships was the 50m breaststroke- a stroke I didn’t feel 100% comfortable swimming, but I was doing it anyway. I was so nervous walking into pool deck, I knew I wanted to be there, but didn’t believe I belonged. My nerves got the better of me. The gun went off and I dove into the pool and I started swimming freestyle/front crawl… not the breaststroke I was supposed to be swimming! I realised my mistake and switched to breaststroke, but the mistake was done… I was disqualified immediately. I remember getting out of the pool distraught, embarrassed and determined to quit swimming. I felt this one mistake was an indication of failure. After a talk with my parents, where they gave me permission to give up if I wanted too, I realised the Paralympic dream I had was bigger than any mistake I could ever make. I want a failure because I had stuffed up. I kept swimming. I competed at two Paralympic Games, won a silver and two bronze medals, broke world records, held countless national records and proved to myself my ability, my skill, my goals. I haven’t stopped making mistakes in life. I still get upset when I make mistakes. But what that race, that moment in time taught me was my mistakes didn’t have to define me. In fact, mistakes can be great learning moments… I mean, I never swam breaststroke again after that disastrous race! But that meant I could focus on my real strengths, freestyle and butterfly. I’m so grateful for the Paralympics, the successes, the mistakes. Without them I wouldn’t be where I am today— ABC Sport reporter, keynote speaker, emcee, storyteller. [Image: a Young white teen girl stands in an Australian sports uniform on pool deck, with a medal around her neck, grinning.] #Leadership #Resilience #WomenEmpowerment #Paralympics #Keynote #Emcee

DO YOU LOSE THE GOLD… OR DO YOU *WIN* THE SILVER? Over the last few weeks I have really enjoyed watching the Olympics and I can’t wait for the Paralympics to start. As I was watching the different sports and cheering on the GB athletes, I was reminded about how quickly things can go wrong. No matter how much we leave no stone unturned in our preparations and no matter how much we might rehearse different scenarios to eliminate risk, things can and DO go wrong. Elite sport is not unlike any other aspect of life in that we prepare, we focus and we strive to perform to our best - but we can’t expect to perform to our best all the time and, what if our best isn’t good enough anyway? How do we even conclude that our best isn’t good enough? What do we use to even measure that? I was aware during the Olympics of a lot of negative talk about missing out on the gold by just a fraction of a second or just a couple of centimetres - and of course, those athletes won a silver medal. This got me thinking, in situations like this should we celebrate and be proud of what we have won, or should we be sad and berate ourselves for what we have lost? It’s a difficult one… As an ex-athlete myself I know how much focus goes onto winning GOLD! During my competitive days I lived in a four year cycle of European Championships, World Equestrian Games, European Championships, Paralympic Games and my goal was always to come home from the next championships with that precious gold medal. I have seven medals to my name - 3 x gold, 3 x silver and 1 x bronze. If I am honest, of course my gold medals mean so much to me, because they symbolise that at those times I was the best - I was european champion and I was also world champion… but you know, second and third in either in europe or in the world isn’t so bad either. My silver and bronze medals also mean a lot to me because they still show achievement, they still represent motivation, hours of work and relentless dedication. So, on those four occasions did I lose the gold medal?… No, I believe that I absolutely WON my silver and bronze medals and I did so with a sense of pride and achievement? What do *YOU* think? Is a silver or bronze medal a win or a loss? #mindset #motivation #motivationalspeaker

We'll always have Paris. Congratulations to our Australian team who have now become our most successful Olympians, winning an all-time record of 18 gold medals, including 4 gold and two bronze medals in our best ever day. In a golden night we've won 4 gold in the women's pole vault, the men's dinghy sailing, men's skateboarding, and men's team pursuit, track cycling, beating the hot favourite UK team. Australia now stands third on the Olympics table, in the sporting superpower ranks just behind the United States and China and way ahead of the host nation France. With a few days left to go, Australia has already eclipsed medal records set in Sydney, Athens, London and Tokyo Olympics. And unlike the Tokyo Olympic blighted by COVID, our athletes have enjoyed the company and comfort of their families whilst competing in what is still probably the most beautiful backdrops that an Olympics has ever experienced. Outside of a few disappointments, particularly the Matildas, the Australian team has performed beyond expectations, and its members will be immortalised for decades to come. It's also a great morale booster for Australia, still struggling to kick clear of the financial and social setbacks of the COVID pandemic. How this Olympic team became the best ever, and what was the secrets of their success, is likely to be the subject of intense analysis, for individuals, teams and organisations seeking to emulate their achievements in other walks of life. #AustraliaBestEverOlympicTeam #Olympics2024

Today and everyday is a time to honor #womeninsport and all their contributions! #abundancesomaticcenter #sport #sports #athletes #athlete #sportpsychology #sportpsych #mentalskills #sportandperformance #sportandperformancepsychology #sportandperf #womeninsports #nationalwomeninsportsday

Good morning Australia, from Paris. Would you swim in the Seine? Asking for a friend. At around 3:30am Paris time (in about five hours from now), officials will get the latest e-coli levels from the Seine so they can decide whether both the women's and men's triathlon events can take place. If not, the Olympic triathlon will become an Olympic duathlon. Officials have done all they could - including spending around AUD2.2 billion on cleaning the river up as part of the Paris 2024 - Comité d'organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de 2024 legacy program. But what do you do, when the entire average rainfall for July buckets down in one 36 hour period? #Olympics #Paris2024 #triathlon #duathlon #climatechange #weather

This age distribution chart of Olympic athletes is really intersting:   • Oldest Sport: Equestrian • Oldest Athlete: 69 years old • Youngest Sport: Skateboarding • Youngest Athlete: 12 years old   The most surprising fact (IMO) is that triathletes are the second oldest group, especially when you consider the age gap to swimming and cycling.   What stands out most to you? P.S. Follow me (Joe Pompliano) for more sports business content! #sports #sportsbiz #linkedinsports

Attention, attention! Watch #TeamDeloitte Para athlete @CurtMcGrath discuss how Para canoe has changed his life, given him purpose, and what he hopes to accomplish at #Paris2024 in this sport explainer video for the International Paralympic Committee.

NEWS: How the Paris Olympic Triathlon New Flag races look with one month to go 🗓️ With just one month left in the Olympic qualification window, the world's top athletes brace for the final push. Read more 👇 #OlympicTRI #RoadToParis2024 #Paris2024 #Triathlon

The Olympics are here! I am doing my best to remember my GCSE French! 🇫🇷 As we admire the spirit of human physical achievement and endurance, the enduring pressure and discipline required to attain a gold medal, it all has a price. Adam Peaty an 8 x world champion 16x European champion swimmer specialising in breaststroke ( all strokes are hard for me !) who won the gold medal in the 100 metre breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics, the first by a male British swimmer in 24 years, and retained the title at the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021, the first British swimmer ever to retain an Olympic title provided a much needed discussion on the mental toll of continual competition. Indeed, winning gold and being an Olympic champion is in itself not happiness or contentment as the great sportsman said. So it was refreshing to see and witness the raw emotion of someone who like us all in our professional careers and life are always in pursuit. However, we must Do something that you can enjoy and enjoy the process rather than always looking at the end goal. In an age of where being the only one and the only person to have achieved , the more rational process of being part of and actively striving for improvement and getting fulfilment from this as a self development drive should be celebrated. He won silver , but he was already a winner even before the clock stopped! #mindset #olympicwinners #ceomindset #lifegoals #resilience #lifefulfilment #healthylife #modernlife #olympics2024 #mentalhealthandwellbeing